Football fans???

[GSPHUNTER]

Saw a semi-documentary on Jim Otto, the Raiders long time center. He had claws for hands from being stepped on. His legs had wasted away, he had I can’t recall how many back and leg surgeries. Getting out of bed was a project that took a while it hurt so bad and in so many places.
The game of football is not compatible with the human body.

He had 74 surgeries. That's crazy.

 

[Turkeytider]

He had 74 surgeries. That's crazy.

Something like 30 broken bones. Read where he never missed a game, but that’s hard to believe.

 

[highcountrymuley]

Loving this time of year on nfl calender. Teams clawing for their lives. Lots of close division races this year!. Hope the Jags are for real - they look good against tomato cans. Let's see what the Broncos game looks like. Too bad indy fell off with D. Jones injury, but good for the jags and Houston.

 

[wind gypsy]

Cant imagine some of the seniors that'll never play again feel great about that decision. Pretty lame.

 

[intunegp]

Cant imagine some of the seniors that'll never play again feel great about that decision. Pretty lame.

I heard a report that it was decided by a bunch of the team captains in a meeting with coach, but who knows if the few were speaking for the many.

Personally I can't see how any of them feel good about it and I think that if you opt out of a bowl you were invited to, you should be ineligible for any bowl for at least another season or two or five. If you want playoffs or nothing then you get playoffs or nothing.

 

[sndmn11]

#rivers&flacco4MVP

 

[intunegp]

#rivers&flacco4MVP

Imagine being the kid who will one day have a story about going to his grandpa's NFL game.

 

[jmez]

College football, like all things is changing. When the started the BCS they killed the traditional Bowl system. FIrst it was players opting out, now it is teams. As they continue to expand the playoff, and they will. The traditional bowl system will go away.

I hate it, but it isn't what I grew up with. The kids now won't hate it because it is all they know.

 

[LostArra]

I heard a report that it was decided by a bunch of the team captains in a meeting with coach, but who knows if the few were speaking for the many.

Personally I can't see how any of them feel good about it and I think that if you opt out of a bowl you were invited to, you should be ineligible for any bowl for at least another season or two or five. If you want playoffs or nothing then you get playoffs or nothing.

The minor bowls (and all bowls outside the playoffs are minor bowls) are just extended practice for the coach with multiple players sitting out due to NFL dreams or transfer portal. It's worse than a consolation game. Maybe the minor bowls and ESPN kick in prize money for the entire rosters and more might play especially if your future isn't the NFL.

I will guess we will even see playoff teams have some star players sitting out. Their future is the NFL, not the playoffs especially the wide receivers from Ohio State. I'm surprised they aren't sitting out.

ND isn't alone. Iowa State, K State, Baylor and UCF all turned down bowl invites. The only reason ND is in the headlines is they bring fans to the stadium and eyeballs to TV. The rest of the minor bowls are played before empty stadiums.

College football, like all things is changing. When the started the BCS they killed the traditional Bowl system. FIrst it was players opting out, now it is teams. As they continue to expand the playoff, and they will. The traditional bowl system will go away.

I hate it, but it isn't what I grew up with. The kids now won't hate it because it is all they know.

+1 ^^
Also the quality of play in college has diminished because there is no continuity year to year. This is especially true in the offensive line and defense. Ohio St and Indiana seem to be keeping players a few years and they are winning because of it.

So much discussion is around the teams ranked 5-12 and this year none of them will beat 1-4.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Big college sports are just minor leagues for the pros these days. The players haven’t been locals in large numbers for decades (except maybe in Texas or Florida). I’ll watch my Alma mater play, but only for the sake of tradition and usually only when they aren’t terrible. But I can’t get excited about college football the way I can about the pros. The pros are at least 100% honest about being professional mercenaries.

 

[intunegp]

The minor bowls (and all bowls outside the playoffs are minor bowls) are just extended practice for the coach with multiple players sitting out due to NFL dreams or transfer portal. It's worse than a consolation game. Maybe the minor bowls and ESPN kick in prize money for the entire rosters and more might play especially if your future isn't the NFL.

I will guess we will even see playoff teams have some star players sitting out. Their future is the NFL, not the playoffs especially the wide receivers from Ohio State. I'm surprised they aren't sitting out.

ND isn't alone. Iowa State, K State, Baylor and UCF all turned down bowl invites. The only reason ND is in the headlines is they bring fans to the stadium and eyeballs to TV. The rest of the minor bowls are played before empty stadiums.


+1 ^^
Also the quality of play in college has diminished because there is no continuity year to year. This is especially true in the offensive line and defense. Ohio St and Indiana seem to be keeping players a few years and they are winning because of it.

So much discussion is around the teams ranked 5-12 and this year none of them will beat 1-4.

And that will never not be true. The whole ranking system exists to tell us who the best team is, and all the conference champs and undefeated-against-nobody teams can be included in the bracket without altering the result at all.

Ironically, adding more and more rounds of playoffs is really just opening the door for key players to get injured in a matchup against a team that doesn't stand a chance of winning the title.

 

[Turkeytider]

Big college sports are just minor leagues for the pros these days. The players haven’t been locals in large numbers for decades (except maybe in Texas or Florida). I’ll watch my Alma mater play, but only for the sake of tradition and usually only when they aren’t terrible. But I can’t get excited about college football the way I can about the pros. The pros are at least 100% honest about being professional mercenaries.

In reality, “ college “ football has become just one group of hired hands playing another group of hired hands. The affiliation of the teams with the schools is all but gone in actuality.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

More games means more money, but it has to balance out somewhere. A twelve game regular season lasting thirteen weeks and a four round playoff (no first round bye week, the conference championship games should be round one) is what I eventually expect to see. The top two teams in each conference should make the playoffs with a couple of at large spots if needed to flesh out the pool to 16 teams. Then seeding can take it from there.

 

[LostArra]

The Tulane's and Jimmy Madison's will continue to be included until there is no one alive who remembers Boise St beating Oklahoma.

 

[mtwarden]

While the FCS certainly hasn't been immune to the new rule set; Montana teams (Grizzlies & Bobcats) have roughly 50 Montana kids each—fun to see so many "local" kids filling out the rosters

Looks like the Dakota teams are just half that.

 

[jmez]

We don't have the population base to fill out those teams. I think both sets of Dakota schools do a good job of keeping the talent home that can play at their level. They all take a few flyers on marginal kids every year, and they should. Some of them pan out some don't. I'm and assistant coach in AAA, the highest class in SD. I played in college. There simply aren't many Div 1 football players in SD and ND. I attneded a combine event in Aberdeen last weekend. There were around 120 kids there, 2028-2026 classes. There weren't 5 kids that have Division 1 metrics.

You fill half the rosters with Dakota Kids and you won't win many games.